Spring Term (March – May)

The First-Year Project (FYP) course challenges teams of five students to apply classroom learning, and utilize skills from their prior work experience, to solve complex business challenges for real clients, or for their own entrepreneurial endeavor. This experiential learning class is unique in that it allows individual students the opportunity to tailor the curriculum to their own interests and career goals. Under the guidelines of the course, students can source their own project or select a project from the project portfolio and, for all projects, form a diverse team for their project of choice.

Projects come from all industries; are local, national, and global; are for non- and for-profit organizations; are with companies at all levels of business development, from early-stage to Fortune 100. Past project teams have analyzed new businesses, created launch strategies for new product or service offerings from an existing company, developed marketing strategies and implementation plans, and assessed the market potential for expansion into entirely new markets. 

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Managing Organizations (MO) is the final installment of the core organizational behavior curriculum. Building on ideas developed in Tuck Launch and Managing People, and applying principles developed in Strategy, MO will focus on how organizations get things done.

Organizations are complex social systems that bring together tasks and structures, people and culture. The role of leadership is to manage this system, keeping it well-aligned, in service of achieving strategic goals and in a way that harnesses the benefits of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). We address these topics by engaging in case studies and experiential approaches, such as simulations and role plays, as well as by discussing contemporary organizational challenges.

Operations Management is the systematic design, management, and control of the resources and processes that transform inputs into finished goods or services. This course provides an introduction to the concepts and analytic methods that are useful in understanding the management of a firm’s operations, both in service and manufacturing settings. The level of analysis varies considerably, from operations strategy through to daily execution, and from single locations through to global supply chains.

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